CHARMING THE FANS: Annah Mac, back in Invercargill for her Girl in Stilettos tour.

TOP IMAGES: Ron Willems, left, of Christchurch, and Paul Webster, of Sydney, check out the winning photographs at the 60th Annual Photographic Society of New Zealand national convention, hosted at the Ascot Park Hotel in Invercargill by the Southland Photographic Society.

IN TUNE: Juliana Baxter and Christine McLeod, members of A Capella singers get ready for their performance of Dido and Aeneas.

SHARP: Lieutenant Rob Paterson and his brother, Flight Lieutenant Sam Paterson, with a drawing of their late grandfather Hugh Paterson. The Southland Times is keen to continue to build our extensive catalogue of men and women who went to war for our Southern Anzac series.

FOND MEMORIES: Bronwyn Eade sits with a photo of her late husband Mervyn beside his ashes in the garden she built in his memory.

I WANT MY PAVLOVA WESTERN: The Kingston Flyer steams along during filming for New Zealand western Good for Nothing. Dreams of being a cowboy in Central Otago led to the making of New Zealand's first `pavlova' western film. Good for Nothing, filmed in Central Otago and the Mackenzie Country, is the first New Zealand self-funded film to receive a theatrical release in the United States and opens in cinemas in New Zealand on May 3, with the premiere to be held in Wanaka.

GETTING ON TOP OF THE PRACTICE: Roofer Jason Lawson works on the new medical centre in the main street of Riverton. The Riverton Medical Centre will move into a purpose-built building in Palmerston St in July, 2012.

GOODWILL DESTROYED: Habitat for Humanity ReStore manager Angela Stainburn surveys the mess left by thieves and vandals after they ripped through donated goods.

MELLOW SOUND: Delgirl members Erin Morton, Lynn Vare and John Dodd kick off performances for the Southland Festival of the Arts at the SIT Centrestage Theatre.

IT'S A WORRY: Gore District Council utilities asset manager Ross Haslemore measures the level of the low Mataura River, whose flow dropped to 16.6 cubic metres per second, forcing the council to urge residents to conserve water. The district has had no rain since last month and the Mataura River, which supplies the town's water, had been steadily dropping. The river's low levels meant the council was not getting the recharge back into its wells.

CHARITY RUN: Motorbikes leave Lorneville as part of the Southland Ulysses Club annual ambulance service fundraiser. Event organiser Jill Warhurst said this year's event, a poker run, would raise money for the Lumsden ambulance service. Now in its 23rd year, the event was growing in popularity. The event usually raised $500 for its chosen charity.

APARTMENT EXPANSION: Southern Institute of Technology international manager Sam Mackay with a model of the institute's accommodation plans.

SIGNING ON: Jillian Clayton enrols Christchurch Photographic Society president David Slaten after registrations opened for the 60th annual Photographic Society of New Zealand National Convention in Invercargill.

DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE: Lisa Justice Grace with part of her exhibition By-products of the Alcohol Years at the Riverton Arts Centre.

IN STEP: Rural Women NZ Southland members (from left, front row) Ann Irving, Kaye McCurdy with Jack McCurdy, 9 weeks, and (back) Dorothy Hay and Rhonda Riddle get into their stride preparing for a fundraising walk. Members throughout the country will walk certain sections, which will then be tallied towards the goal of walking 1600m - about the length of New Zealand.

ULTIMATE STUMP COLLECTION: Sculptor Frank Wells in the Victorian Folly Stumpery he is building in Queens Park for the Invercargill City Council parks division, using old tree stumps. The project is ``the ultimate in recycling,'' showing off the roots that once supported the growth of the tree with artistic flair. The public will be able to view the stumpery when it is completed shortly.

WARTIME ROMANCE: Ella and Owen Young with their wedding portrait taken 66 years ago and photos from Mr Young's time in the Solomon Islands.

RED LETTER DAY: Central Otago winemaker Alan Brady toasts 25 years since the release of his Gibbston Valley Pinot Noir 1987, in the Home Block vineyard where the grapes were harvested.

MIGHTY COST: A hobbyist Southland beekeeper, who recently passed the random MAF checks, will need to find more time, and money, to fight the varroa mite after it was discovered in Invercargill.

PAINLESS: CRT Invercargill branch manager Peter Thompson with its coffee machine. The money people pay for their coffees goes to the Chair of Neurosurgery appeal.

CLEAN GREEN: The Southland Copier Company managing director Reece McDonald with some of the recycled toner cartridges. The centre dismantles all used cartridges received and extracts the toner. All other components are recycled. Waste toner is a mix of all colours.

NABBED: Police catch up with a youth who they say was seen with a knife in the Invercargill Public Library. Police had taken possession of a 5-centimetre folding knife. No-one was threatened but he showed it to some other people. The teen was taken back to the Invercargill police station, where he was interviewed before being released about an hour later, he said.

ON THE JOB: Wallacetown Volunteer Fire Brigade senior station officer Angus Malcolm shows Shauna, 9, and Tyler McLean, 3, what it's like to drive a fire engine when the the brigade held a community day.

SKIRL OF THE PIPES: Surrounded by autumn colours and thousands of people, the Queenstown Southern Lakes Pipe Band heralds the start of the annual Arrowtown Autumn Festival.

AMAZING GRACE: Grace Titter, 15, performs her highland dancing at the Southland Farmers Market, as part of the Southland Heritage Forum.

RALLYING IN SUPPORT: Southland meatworkers took to the streets for the second time to support locked out Talley's workers. The protesters, mainly from the Alliance Group Lorneville plant, collected money on the streets outside New World Elles Rd for about 1000 Meatworkers' Union members from North Island plants. The meatworkers were locked out after a disagreement about changes to their collective agreements.

TECHNOLOGY HELP: Lynn McKenzie, owner of Need a Nerd in Invercargill, has noticed a surge in business recently. More Southland farmers and businesses had also recently started to use Need a Nerd, which started out as a residential service, she said.